Exposing Cuomo’s Crimes With David Sirota And Ron Kim

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🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Assemblyman Ron Kim talks (https://twitter.com/rontkim) about being threatened by Governor Andrew Cuomo for telling the truth about his administration's coverup of nursing home deaths. (https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Ron-Kim) David Sirota (https://twitter.com/davidsirota) talks about his own journalism on Cuomo.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper Show. Please rate and review the show on iTunes.
0:13.0	On today's show, I speak to New York Assembly member Ron Kim. He represents Assembly District
0:19.3	40 in New York. I also speak to journalist David Sarota. Both David Sarota and Ron Kim
0:25.9	have helped expose Governor Andrew Cuomo's cover-up of nursing home debts. David Sarota is a journalist,
0:32.4	Denverite, founder of the Daily Postor Editor at large of Jacobin, columnist at the Guardian,
0:37.4	and he worked for Bernie in 2000 and then again in 2020. Please become patron supporters
0:43.8	of the Katie Halper Show at patreon.com slash the Katie Halper Show. Again, that's patreon.com slash
0:48.7	the Katie Halper Show. You'll be able to access a panel discussion that's pretty funny with guests
0:55.0	Breonna Joy Gray, Ed Angueso, Justin Jackson, and Trevor Blio, where we react to Joe Biden's latest
1:01.0	town hall. Hello and we're live. Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper Show. I'm your host Katie
1:09.4	Halper and we have a great show for you guys today. We're going to be talking to Ron Kim, a New York
1:15.7	Assemblyman who is fighting the good fight and a way that you know you're fighting the good fight is
1:19.7	when Andrew Cuomo threatens you. He does all sorts of great work also in addition to getting
1:25.5	Andrew Cuomo angry and he's going to be talking to us about the way that Cuomo covered up in
1:31.9	nursing home debts and that's a really really important story and it's getting so little attention.
1:38.3	Not the cover-up but the reasons why he had to cover these numbers up in the first place and we're
1:43.6	also going to be talking to David Sarota who has done really important investigative journalism
1:49.9	around this very subject. In fact, there's some clips and interviews from earlier this summer where
1:55.5	David was talking about why Cuomo was sneaking in some immunity for negligence and we'll get
2:04.8	into that later. But going to bring on my co-host with the Mahost Leslie Lee. Hello Leslie.
2:12.1	Hey, how's it going, Kate? Thank you so much for having me back. I am the co-host.
2:17.1	You are a co-host, yeah. It's like that thing that Trump said about Elizabeth Warren's
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